Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies - Hardcover

by M. Wappett (Editor), K. Arndt (Editor)

Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual nature of disability; governmentality and disability rights; neurodiversity and challenges to medicalized constructions of autism; and questions of citizenship and participation in political and sexual economies. In sum, this volume uses disability studies as an innovative framework for its investigation into what it means to be human.

Author Biography

Anjali Forber-Pratt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Steven Aragon, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA Christopher A. Riddle, Utica College, USA Tom Jordan, Binghamton University, NY William Southwell-Wright, Durham University, UK Lien Claes, Ghent University, Belgium Elisabeth De Schauwer, Ghent University, Belgium Geert Van Hove, Ghent University, Belgium Rodney Hume-Dawson, Chapman University, USA Sarah Parker Harris, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Randell Owen, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Robert Gould, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Carrie Snow, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA Rebekah Moras, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Margaret Rose Torrell, SUNY College at Old Westbury, USA